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so here I am on Board Costa Serena and
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I'm going to give you my cruising tips
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one of the things I always say if you
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are going to cruise is make sure you
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choose absolutely the right cruise line
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so who is Costa well suited for first of
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all Italian it's very Italian it is an
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Italian line it has been for 60 years
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most of the passengers are Italian it's
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uh it's you know it's Italy first if you
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speak other languages it's fine because
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the daily program key announcements are
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done in English they have a host for you
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but it's very Italian so if you like
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that you'll like that secondly families
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there's a lot of families on board
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particularly with young kids obviously
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multi-generational so if you don't like
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kids uh it's probably not a perfect
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cruise line if you love kids or want to
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come with your family it's great thirdly
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it's very good value prices are pretty
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low it does mean that the overall
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experience of course is a value
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experience it's kind of very Mass market
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and for example the food is fine there's
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lots of it but it's not an amazing
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Gourmet experience but it's a pretty
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good food and of course it's good again
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to make sure that families and kids are
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happy fourthly smoking their smoking
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policy is quite liberal
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um because I guess the Italian Heritage
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so a lot of the public bars public
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spaces are smoking you can't smoke in
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things like the restaurants and theaters
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and that but if you do smoke for example
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um Costa you'll find lots of places to
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smoke which you won't find on other
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cruise lines so that's Costa Italian
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families incredibly good value smoking
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and it's kind of a mass Market General
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appeal nothing to fancy relatively
